THE Western Australian Turf Club is aggressively marketing its racecourses as premier outdoor event locations in an effort to attract non-race related functions and exhibitions to the Ascot and Belmont sites.
DESPITE a rising Australian dollar and the fallout from recent terrorist attacks in Bali and the US, Western Australia’s incentive travel operators are expecting strong growth.
PLAYING cards with an event manager would be tricky for two reasons – they combine a poker-faced approach to business with a flair for developing a winning hand, whatever cards they’ve been dealt.
WHILE most ports are “steaming along very nicely”, Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan acknowledges she and some port authorities have faced several difficult situations in the past two years.
WA regional ports’ executive management and their boards are overseeing major expansions, planning for trade in new commodities, and negotiating rural industry setbacks.
DROUGHT conditions throughout much of Australia have not stopped farmers from dipping into their pockets to purchase big-ticket tractors and combine harvesters.
ELEVEN years ago, a small group of WA farmers shook up the State’s fertiliser market when they started undercutting the big players with cheap imports.
MUCKINBUDIN wheat farmer Allan Watson and Morawa wheat farmer Chris Moffet should have a lot in common.
But their common interest in the future of WA’s grains industry is divided by their off-farm roles.
IT has been a fascinating year at Christmas Island company Phosphate Resources Limited, which has been embroiled in a shareholder squabble since Como-based Asset Backed Holdings entered the company’s register in 2002 and its directors...
ONE week after surviving a threatened Aliquot Asset Management boardroom spill, Michael Perrott and Antony Rigoll have avoided a similar battle with shareholders at Phosphate Resources Limited by stepping down as directors.
PART of the folklore of Christmas Island revolves around the fire that swept through the union offices not long after the death of union secretary Gordon Bennett.
Armed with a single power saw, nail bag, some borrowed materials and plenty of ambition, registered builder Pedro Turibaka began work on his first construction site, a small East Pe
From beginnings as a one-man operation in 1992, Carmelo Princiotto has built his business, Jamel Industries, into one of WA’s largest domestic furniture manufacturers, specialising
Going to the dentist isn’t many people’s idea of a fun day out, but Dr Fiona Kelly has created a dentistry business that has become cherished by the Geraldton community.
Graeme Yukich made the headlines in August last year following his decision to walk away from a successful 12-year career at Hartleys and to go his own way.
BASSENDEAN firm Specialised Welding is one of many local firms to have worked on Woodside’s $1.6 billion Train Four project.
However, its client was not Woodside. Instead it was the Japanese pump manufacturer Nikisso.
After working as a mortgage broker for seven years Greg Pennells and his partner, Ross Begley, had become disillusioned and disappointed by the lack of support available to mortgage
